Interviews

The seed that blossomed into Poems & Posies was planted around Christmas over two years ago, when Maggie Coker and Jasmin Lünstroth started sending each other mood boards. Self proclaimed 'doers', the boss ladies dove into their new craft, heads and hearts first, and started carving out their business idea, allowing it to organically sprout and flower, much like an untamed wildflower.

When Lynn in 2015 sold her home and belongings in Amsterdam, bought a van and hit the road with her dog Fausto, headed for Portugal, I knew that her passion and dedication would transform into something extraordinary, but what I've witnessed though social media and our conversations over the last year has literally blown my socks off.

Julia and Lido launched Berberlin when their son Junes was still a newborn, and have raised their two babies to toddlerhood over the last year and a half. Healthy and growing would be a proper description for both…

Why would you shop organic food while wearing clothes that are both toxic and produced unethically? For previous shop owner and fashion designer, Sonja Lotz, this was one of the questions that prompted her to start a sustainable fashion store.

‘Food is just matter or liquid containing flavor,' he said, ‘and if we learn to taste our food free of our preconceived notions of what goes with what, a whole world of new combinations become possible.’ My mind was officially blown.

Last time we talked to Karen von Pederstad, she was working out of a shoebox overlooking the Eiffel Tower. This time we meet the Retusj designer in her bright haven of creativity, in the center of Oslo…